Time Turns Elastic Songtext / Lyric

In and out of focus

Time turns elastic



And when I'd stayed too long

I went outside and stared

Arms outstretched and long

Moved straight across the sky



If I could wrap my arms around this globe

Hands, touch the green and brown

I'd sink into the cool, cool ground



Seen all, seen all, seen all summer

Seen all, seen all, seen all spring



But I'm a submarine

And the submarine sinks below

The ground



Now that the leaves have turned to gold

The moments all glow

Frozen and free from time



And out here on my own

I watch it ebb and flow






Here, with the fire burning low

In the honey mist that breathes

Crooked maple fingers trembling all around

I feel the winds that blow



Out here between the dark and light

The summer's gone, and the reeds bow down

As the colors change

All along the water line



And when it's time the landslide will free what froze inside

While all around the rocks collide

You finally see the lines

That point toward the light that never dies



Melody, shelter in the darkness

Take hold of me now

Memory, trapped in a corner

Dark fingers are long



But all around streaming down

Rays of blue light, calling out



These silver sounds are raining down on me

Here on the wheel, the rhythm's turning all around

Up above the darkened sky is bleeding

I feel the world turning upside down



These are the reasons that we lay down on the ground

Drawn through a funnel, all the colors run together

Turning brown



Wait for the waves to come and carry me away

Down on the ground the sounds of voices in the echoes seem to say



And as the carousel circles unceasingly

Watch while the ripples decay in this rolling time

And cascading, the winds set the wheels in motion

And it's turning in the mist around me

Rolling and turning into the mist around me



Kissed by the water and held in your mother's arms

Green where you tumble and roll in these fields

The shapes of the bodies that shift in the sun

While the blossoms all scream and it sleeps around me

The earth in these memories heals around me



In and out of focus

Time turns elastic



Touches these woods and these waters all paved with gold

Gleaming in daylight the voices ring on

They pull while the pointing lay down in the storm

And this life is bending and swelling around me



Rolling and turning into the mist around me

The winds all rising in the west around me

And the carousel turns into breath around me



In and out of focus

Time turns elastic